Knowing how to play slide guitar is always good to have in your arsenal. One of my favorite slide players, Lowell George, had a very unique slide tone. He used a tube amp, set super clean, and had two compressors stacked (one with low sustain and one with high sustain) to get that tone Little Feat was known for.
Mistertbones: I typed Lowell George in my comment as an inspiration but deleted his name because I felt unworthy. My slide playing isn’t great but his tone is the sound in my head when I think about slide. I always thought it was a Dumble cranked. Now I have two slide tones to try out. Thanks!
My favorite U2 album getting a shout out... the slide solo from Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own as well as City of Blinding Lights is what made me want to learn slide as well!
Josh just wanted to say thanks for ALL your great videos. I learn a lot from all of them the more I watch them. Nick’s hands were also a superb addition. Nice job Nick! Hope you’re having a great vacation and looking forward to your return! Also I have an old Ibanez Phase Tone that needs some help...later
Making want to add slide back into the mix! After being a dedicated straight in kind of guy, I’m trying Fuzz, Overdrive, Reverb (outboard), Delay...still figuring it out. Fuzz/Gain/Distortion while riding the guitar volume is magic. Right now I have a Pollinator or DOD Carcosa running into a Catalinbread DLS (Super Bass mode), into a 5e3 clone. Apartment volumes, so the Deluxe is actually behaving like a great sounding “high” headroom amp. I’m playing a Strat. Guitar volume on ten = woman tone, six/seven = thick lead tones, four/five = amazing “clean” tones. Pollinator gives up those glassy treble tones on the Strat when running that low. Want to say thank to you Josh, for opening up new worlds of tones!
Never got on with conventional slide technique, fingerpicking and lap steel style on the other hand........sooo relaxing sat on the sofa, and as Josh says great for slower more melodic ideas. :)
Just thought I´d let you guys know that I´ve been a fan of the channel for a couple of years and have seen lots+lots of videos and loved them all. Keep up the good work, we really appreciate it!! :D
I started playing slide after a spinal cord injury that left me a quad for about 2 years. 14 years later I'm almost back to "normal" except for my left hand is still stiff but it is getting better. One of the first things I did was build a slide board using a Analog Man Prince of tone into an angry driver. Then I added the Canyon and reverb and it came alive.... Thanks for the idea on covering timing errors. #noopiates
Cool sounds Josh! My base slide tone includes an Origin Effects Slide Rig Compact pedal. Input and Output controls set to match your rig. Turn the Blend knob above 1 o'clock to get into Lowell George territory. Follow with a Fulltone Deja Vibe Mini MKII set real slow for some syrup. Then add overdrive of choice - TS and/or OCD - or skip the overdrive and enjoy the clean tone. Set reverb to taste. Guitars - Fender Tele or Reverend Sensei Jr. Amp - Fender EC Vibrochamp.
I run my guitar (HB's or P-90's) into my Jaques "Bette Noir" or my Boss BD & JHS Bonsai into my Joyo analog delay through a JHS splitter into 2 Roland Blues Cube Hots (one is the EL-84 Mod) using a brass slide and usually open E to emulate Duane Allman. I love Duane's slide playing . Always enjoy your Vlogs Josh !
"When the levee breaks" that Jimmy Page's Slide blows my mind every time (I know Josh didn't asked for favorite slide song on this video, but i just had the need to comment this) :P
Josh, really great episode (like always). I’ve been playing guitar a long time but my slide game is kind of weak. My setup has been: * Nik Huber ‘59 Orca Custom * Two-Rock head So we know it’s not a gear problem. All the drive & reverb comes from the amp. After this I want to try P90s and focus on the mid-range...maybe turn down the gain a bit. It sounds great when Josh does it. Thanks for tip!
@@jhspedals Thanks for the reply. That's very interesting. I play dobro and lap (just started 6 months ago) and I've never been very comfortable playing slide in standard tuning and/or regular position. You must have a really nice soft touch on those strings. So happy to have discovered your channel. You've really inspired me to keep learning. I've been playing guitar for 30 years but it's only been in the past year that I've been using pedals. Thanks again.
Cool episode. I agree about needing that midrange for slide. I find it much easier to play slide on a flatter neck (I use a 335) than on a more curved one, like on a Strat, and with strings that are heavy-ish (11s, nothing crazy). And I dig the sound humbuckers make as long as they aren't too dark. Their built-in compression really helps with sustain. I love using delay and reverb (and tremolo) for wall-of-sound type backing parts, sliding into chords. For leads I tend to use my Catalinbread Karma Suture - the humbuckers make it drive hard. If I really need more I add the smallsound/bigsound F&@! overdrive. Even without a compressor it sustains for days.
Props for admitting you like U2. I feel like they’re so unfashionable it’s hard for people to remember how awesome they were and how rad the Edge always is. Slide solo on Bullet the Blue sky sold me on the idea that slide wasn’t just for blues guitar.
U2 was always hit or miss for me. Mostly miss. Bullet the Blue Sky is fantastic! Killer slide work on the bridge section. I also like a few other tunes by them. But for the most part they don't appeal to me. But, that doesn't make them bad, they're just not a band for me. That is the beauty of music... we can have different likes and dislikes, and it is OK.
Once again you’ve helped me understand the choice of pedals, this time for slide. Joe Walsh and Rocky Mountain Way started me off. Then more recently Joey Landreth. I use an old Fender Lead II with ultra sonic stacked humbuckers and a Joey Landreth brass slide. Pedals have been whatever has been on my board at the time and sounds good.
Cool, great work. Favorite slide tones to which I have long aspired are 1. Ry Cooder (particularly on Safe As Milk and the Performance soundtrack), 2. Bill Harkleroad on the tracks Big-Eyed Beans From Venus and Clear Spot. I also love John Fahey's acoustic slide stuff (of course, of course).
Love your slide tone man! And hope you are having an awesome holiday! For me, I like to play slide on my 72 tele thinking reissue, usually a trex Alberta and a klone with fender amp reverb...but after listening to this, I am gonna engage my delay to add some depth and atmosphere!
I play slide on a national resonator (resorocket wb with a hotplate pickup)...I use a metal tone dome slide and run the signal through a Mesa Tone Burst, Boss Tremelo, MXR Echoplex delay and top it off with a Boss Reverb through a clean Fender Black Face Princeton... love old country blues... still relevant to me... sounds dreamy...
I like Jimmy Pages use of slide and slide harmonies. I love my echoplex with slide and ebow. It is like another instrument. I have been playing guitar for 52 years and I keep learning. I play while watching TV. I cant put it down. Like a good book. I sure enjoy your JHS Pedal show, I hope to afford a couple of your pedals. Keep up the good work Josh!
Thank you for always emphasising that a “beautiful” stand alone tone isn’t always the one that cuts through. So give it this nasal character and with a Klon or a Klon-clone and: voilà! Another method is an “always-on” wah-pedal. There are so many great slide solos. But one that’s in my ears since my teenage years is the the solo of Victims of Love by the Eagles. I think it’s Joe Walsh. Just great.
I'm another person who loves at least some gain out of a Klon circuit. They're a decent clean boost, but not ground breaking IMO. I think the magic of that circuit is the fattening & presence that occurs with the gain/EQ interaction.
In the place of your Klon, I use a bit of an off the wall solution to cut through. I use my Sioux Guitars Flanger with the depth frozen. It acts as a cocked wah type effect that you tune to best cut through
Good tip on muting the back end of the string. Glass slide is my preferred sound choice too, BTW. One of my favorite slide guitar works is on U2"s Bullet the Blue Sky. The solo on Red Rider's Lunatic Fringe is pretty awesome too though I think that was a pedal steel guitar. Anyways, I always liked slide but was never really good at it especially finding the right tone so this is really helpful.
I use middle finger, brass slide, 12-52's with a wound 3rd, Les Paul, Keeley Caverns reverb and delay, Strymon Sunset set on Texas mode, and a Chet Atkins/Warren Haynes finger picking technique.
For my slide tone, usually my Echoplex preamp (dimed) into my Arion Tubulator with the gain dimed, about 75% on the tone knob and volume to taste. Thanks for the tips on delay! Firing up my rig now!
My slide setup is pretty similar Fender Mustang>Keeley Compressor Plus>low gain OCD>high gain Rockett Archer>MXR Carbon Copy Deluxe>Princeton Reverb. I mostly use the amp's reverb unless I'm trynna get weird. And sometimes I use my DD-20 instead of or in addition to the Carbon Copy for the same reason. The transparent drive into a high gain klone is an idea I copped from your stacking pedals video, but since I came up with using it for slide guitar independently of this video, I'm just gonna say I invented it.
That's a good slide tone! I personally like to use a compressor with single coils. I also like using my Les Paul for slide, especially for a higher gain tone - it cuts through the mix very well. Finally, I think a slapback echo fairly loud can really accentuate the pitch movement.
I usually play with different slides, metal or copper or glass slides, in order to have many sounds as possible. But, must of the times the only pedal I turn on it's a special double overdrive made for me by The Mad Hatter that allows me to cut through the mix and set two different levels, for different playings. But tonite, I'll be on stage and I'll pair the Morning Glory and the Klone, just to see if it can be a valid alternative to my usual sound. Congratulations!
Great slide tone! Im a novice at slide, about 6 months in. I use a glass rockslide. Normally play on a strat, tele, ot prs custom 24. I been favoring open E, but have tried drop D and standard. I have a spark boost pedal for my resonator ive been meaning to try on the electrics.
Listener - Death By Shotgun. the slide is great, but the creative instrumentals are what makes it for me. chains, ratchets, and trash cans. incredible musicianship.
So, its nice to see someone else not use a compressor playing slide, my normal set up is a amp set to really growl when the guitar is at 10 (orange, um vox, super reverb turned up) a boost or drive turned down (a LTD by Barber or a '81 inventions DRV) and a verb delay pedal when I wanna be all spacy (a dispatch master is the best for this, not just because it's made by friends, but because its a one stop shop for that sound) Basically the drive pedal is there if I'm usong an amp that wont get really growly like a bassman or a mig 50... I use a rock slide brass slide and I use a 335 style/semi hollow boddy guitar... I play alot of slide
First comment? Just wanted to say I love to play my slide with my JHS Double Barrel, both sides on, my JHS panther cub delay and my HOF mini reverb... Amazing sound!!
Josh, at 3:23 you mean a Klon KTR, although I know you have a Centaur that’s been in other videos. (Also, I won’t aggravate you while you’re on vacation by asking for the Behringer equivalents for all of the effects in this video like I usually do). Have a great vacation!
Slide tone in phx az!. Tele straight into a slightly moded epiphone valve jr. The one knob is just past 12 o'clock. If we need a slight bit more "bite" just add a bit of soulfood to taste.😜
Ben from All Them Witches has a great slide tone on their last album and kexp video. Btw thanks for pointing out those slide parts on that U2 album. I have to say although it is the first piece of music I actually owned and I ve heard it probly like 100 times I never really noticed much sliding going on.
There's an excellent performance by guitarist Martin Simpson on the Museum of Making Music channel, the first song of the full concert has him playing slide with an E-bow on acoustic guitar, and it is totally haunting and mesmerizing.
I really like that sound. I’m struggling with slide at the moment. Inspired by the music of Santo and Johnny, I converted a mustang bullet into a lap steel. I have made some nice sounds, but it mostly sounds “experimental”.
Use a Epi LP junior with a nut riser. I lay it down and use a steel slide between my thumb and index finger using the rest to mute on the back end. Enjoy your time away!!! Catch your videos every week, they are the goods.
@@benlogan430 It is a slotted nut that sits over the top of your regular nut to raise the action for slide playing on a guitar. It doesn't require any modifications. You just take it off, if you want to, when you are done. Also called: Grover Perfect Guitar Nut - Height Extender. StewMac sells a version that's a little different but same idea. From $5 - $10.
I love slide! I usually play it on Open G and I use my Epiphone SG with my amp turned all the way up. I get some really great sounds from it that way, but it's too much gain for fretting and stuff, so I just back off the volume on my guitar to play rhythmic stuff and then I just crank it for the solos. No need for reverb when it's that loud! The drumset on the room does that for me!
I play pedal steel guitar and when I kick in some gain, I kind of do the reverse... an earth drive, which has a mid boosty kind of sound, in to a mucho boosto turned way down, which gives it a bit of air that the earth drive is missing. Then it's to a volume pedal, then to a carbon copy bright, then a hardwire reverb.
Lots to think about I've always played acoustic slide more because there's not as much sonic noise that can get in the way but I can see how you use the pedals to cancel out the extra noise thx for the vid
Always find it hard to play slide, cause my comfortable finger is the middle one (at least it’s ok for power chords, but unfit for mixing slide and regular solos), and cause I try to follow the melody in my head, but it’s never easy to do it on standard tuning. Love the ep. and the rig. Edit: loved the food visualizing. Enjoy your vacation!
It might help to try singing the melody while you play - Rory Gallagher did that a ton, it's fun to do, and it does help your ears and fingers to match up.
I always have a compressor on for sustain... otherwise, pretty similar. Something like a Keeley Super Phat Mod for grit, and whatever is nearby for delay/reverb. But also add harmonic tremolo for warble. The Keeley Vibe o Verb is perfect - harmonic trem only on the reverb trails.
I use a Tele and Fender Concert amp, with a Boss compressor for sustain (with the attack dialled down) . I never use OD or Fuzz for melodic slide (sounds too bluesy) but agree with using the delay/reverb.
Stones roses - loves spreads.. great slide intro
Knowing how to play slide guitar is always good to have in your arsenal. One of my favorite slide players, Lowell George, had a very unique slide tone. He used a tube amp, set super clean, and had two compressors stacked (one with low sustain and one with high sustain) to get that tone Little Feat was known for.
Mistertbones: I typed Lowell George in my comment as an inspiration but deleted his name because I felt unworthy. My slide playing isn’t great but his tone is the sound in my head when I think about slide. I always thought it was a Dumble cranked. Now I have two slide tones to try out. Thanks!
RIP rocknroll dr
@@owntone5 Ok good. Leave Lowell outta this. Thank you.
thank you so much! that little tip of throwing the fingers behind the slide to dead that overtone - so helpful
I wish a channel like yours existed back in the day when I started buying my first pedals, your energy and dedication make every video a must watch!
I heard that How He Loves at 5:31-5:34 ;)
Also, this is exactly my slide tone through a Vox.
My favorite U2 album getting a shout out... the slide solo from Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own as well as City of Blinding Lights is what made me want to learn slide as well!
Best slide tone. Derek trucks, Gibson SG->Super reverb->turned all the way up!
Oft said but George Harrison is one of the most melodic brilliant slide players
The most underrated pedal of all time..the Earthquaker Dispatch Master. Bought one in 2012 and have loved it ever since!
Josh just wanted to say thanks for ALL your great videos. I learn a lot from all of them the more I watch them. Nick’s hands were also a superb addition. Nice job Nick!
Hope you’re having a great vacation and looking forward to your return! Also I have an old Ibanez Phase Tone that needs some help...later
Making want to add slide back into the mix! After being a dedicated straight in kind of guy, I’m trying Fuzz, Overdrive, Reverb (outboard), Delay...still figuring it out. Fuzz/Gain/Distortion while riding the guitar volume is magic.
Right now I have a Pollinator or DOD Carcosa running into a Catalinbread DLS (Super Bass mode), into a 5e3 clone. Apartment volumes, so the Deluxe is actually behaving like a great sounding “high” headroom amp. I’m playing a Strat. Guitar volume on ten = woman tone, six/seven = thick lead tones, four/five = amazing “clean” tones. Pollinator gives up those glassy treble tones on the Strat when running that low.
Want to say thank to you Josh, for opening up new worlds of tones!
Never got on with conventional slide technique, fingerpicking and lap steel style on the other hand........sooo relaxing sat on the sofa, and as Josh says great for slower more melodic ideas. :)
Can you grow a mustache please?
(I just want to see if it looks like your eyebrows).
Love you man.
he has one its also invisible. love him tho too cute
hahaha this is gold
People don't know what's wrong when you have no eyebrows, just that something is wrong
Just thought I´d let you guys know that I´ve been a fan of the channel for a couple of years and have seen lots+lots of videos and loved them all. Keep up the good work, we really appreciate it!! :D
Derek Trucks is definitely my favorite slide player. His playing on “Midnight in Harlem” alone is just superb.
I started playing slide after a spinal cord injury that left me a quad for about 2 years. 14 years later I'm almost back to "normal" except for my left hand is still stiff but it is getting better. One of the first things I did was build a slide board using a Analog Man Prince of tone into an angry driver. Then I added the Canyon and reverb and it came alive.... Thanks for the idea on covering timing errors. #noopiates
Cool sounds Josh! My base slide tone includes an Origin Effects Slide Rig Compact pedal. Input and Output controls set to match your rig. Turn the Blend knob above 1 o'clock to get into Lowell George territory. Follow with a Fulltone Deja Vibe Mini MKII set real slow for some syrup. Then add overdrive of choice - TS and/or OCD - or skip the overdrive and enjoy the clean tone. Set reverb to taste. Guitars - Fender Tele or Reverend Sensei Jr. Amp - Fender EC Vibrochamp.
Try this, the earthquaker devices "the warden" into a normal, squashy compressor, into the Klone, into the verb . Sustain and clarity
Never dawned on me to add delay. Definately going to try it!
I run my guitar (HB's or P-90's) into my Jaques "Bette Noir" or my Boss BD & JHS Bonsai into my Joyo analog delay through a JHS splitter into 2 Roland Blues Cube Hots (one is the EL-84 Mod) using a brass slide and usually open E to emulate Duane Allman. I love Duane's slide playing . Always enjoy your Vlogs Josh !
"When the levee breaks"
that Jimmy Page's Slide blows my mind every time
(I know Josh didn't asked for favorite slide song on this video, but i just had the need to comment this) :P
statesboro blues fav slide intro
George Harrison's standard tuning slide is very melodic too. Very underrated from his solo period.
Yes man! I like Robbie Krieger as well, say from 'Moonlight drive' that kinda vibe.
Josh, really great episode (like always). I’ve been playing guitar a long time but my slide game is kind of weak. My setup has been:
* Nik Huber ‘59 Orca Custom
* Two-Rock head
So we know it’s not a gear problem. All the drive & reverb comes from the amp. After this I want to try P90s and focus on the mid-range...maybe turn down the gain a bit. It sounds great when Josh does it. Thanks for tip!
I wish you would have commented on your guitar set up. Like, string height, tuning, etc. Thanks for the videos.
Standard setup, nothing fancy. Standard tuning
@@jhspedals Thanks for the reply. That's very interesting. I play dobro and lap (just started 6 months ago) and I've never been very comfortable playing slide in standard tuning and/or regular position. You must have a really nice soft touch on those strings. So happy to have discovered your channel. You've really inspired me to keep learning. I've been playing guitar for 30 years but it's only been in the past year that I've been using pedals. Thanks again.
EBEG#BE + A short scale Silvertone 1448 with light strings HEAVEN! I never play standard any more.
Love it! My preference is raunchy overdriven slide over clean compressed slide, so this is perfect.
Cool episode. I agree about needing that midrange for slide. I find it much easier to play slide on a flatter neck (I use a 335) than on a more curved one, like on a Strat, and with strings that are heavy-ish (11s, nothing crazy). And I dig the sound humbuckers make as long as they aren't too dark. Their built-in compression really helps with sustain. I love using delay and reverb (and tremolo) for wall-of-sound type backing parts, sliding into chords. For leads I tend to use my Catalinbread Karma Suture - the humbuckers make it drive hard. If I really need more I add the smallsound/bigsound F&@! overdrive. Even without a compressor it sustains for days.
Props for admitting you like U2. I feel like they’re so unfashionable it’s hard for people to remember how awesome they were and how rad the Edge always is.
Slide solo on Bullet the Blue sky sold me on the idea that slide wasn’t just for blues guitar.
Also the little bit of acoustic slide in the beginning of Running To Stand Still is, although very simple, just what the song needed.
U2 was always hit or miss for me. Mostly miss. Bullet the Blue Sky is fantastic! Killer slide work on the bridge section. I also like a few other tunes by them. But for the most part they don't appeal to me. But, that doesn't make them bad, they're just not a band for me. That is the beauty of music... we can have different likes and dislikes, and it is OK.
I love that tone! I’m rubbish when it comes to slide, but someday I’ll figure it out.
Once again you’ve helped me understand the choice of pedals, this time for slide. Joe Walsh and Rocky Mountain Way started me off. Then more recently Joey Landreth. I use an old Fender Lead II with ultra sonic stacked humbuckers and a Joey Landreth brass slide. Pedals have been whatever has been on my board at the time and sounds good.
This definitely reminds me of the slide parts of Lightbulb Sun by Steven Wilson. I dig it!
Also my favorite piece of slide guitar work is in Pinegrove’s Audiotree session, first track “Need 2.” Friggin beautiful.
Your assistant thing was the best part!
Are you sure that assistant was "Thing" and not "Hans"?
@@valvenator just a guess
Cool, great work. Favorite slide tones to which I have long aspired are 1. Ry Cooder (particularly on Safe As Milk and the Performance soundtrack), 2. Bill Harkleroad on the tracks Big-Eyed Beans From Venus and Clear Spot. I also love John Fahey's acoustic slide stuff (of course, of course).
Great video! I hope you guys are enjoying your vacation! :)
U2 = mega praise. Slide on “bullet the blue sky” makes my guitar pants go crazy. Thanks for the tips
Hearing the live version of Bullet the Blue Sky from Rattle and Hum blew my 11 year old mind and made me take guitar seriously.
Dustin Anderson that movie is killer. I remember hearing edge do this crazy fast rat-tat-tat on his guitar on Bullet the Blue Sky. So good.
Thanks Josh, I’m just learning and dabble with a “glass” slide on my Stratocaster. I hope I can get the tones and rhythm you got today!
Love your slide tone man! And hope you are having an awesome holiday!
For me, I like to play slide on my 72 tele thinking reissue, usually a trex Alberta and a klone with fender amp reverb...but after listening to this, I am gonna engage my delay to add some depth and atmosphere!
I play slide on a national resonator (resorocket wb with a hotplate pickup)...I use a metal tone dome slide and run the signal through a Mesa Tone Burst, Boss Tremelo, MXR Echoplex delay and top it off with a Boss Reverb through a clean Fender Black Face Princeton... love old country blues... still relevant to me... sounds dreamy...
I just love the slide at Shine from Slash's Snakepit, in combination with the wah wah
You beat me to it. Slash has a fee really tasty slide riffs and solos, and Shine is probably my favorite.
I like Jimmy Pages use of slide and slide harmonies. I love my echoplex with slide and ebow. It is like another instrument. I have been playing guitar for 52 years and I keep learning. I play while watching TV. I cant put it down. Like a good book. I sure enjoy your JHS Pedal show, I hope to afford a couple of your pedals. Keep up the good work Josh!
Thank you for always emphasising that a “beautiful” stand alone tone isn’t always the one that cuts through. So give it this nasal character and with a Klon or a Klon-clone and: voilà! Another method is an “always-on” wah-pedal.
There are so many great slide solos. But one that’s in my ears since my teenage years is the the solo of Victims of Love by the Eagles. I think it’s Joe Walsh. Just great.
Thanks guys, another great video. I feel complete now. Enjoy your time off!
I'm another person who loves at least some gain out of a Klon circuit. They're a decent clean boost, but not ground breaking IMO. I think the magic of that circuit is the fattening & presence that occurs with the gain/EQ interaction.
Take more vacations. Totally awesome video. Thank you
What I use Sir:
Clean slide: compresor, reverb, slapback delay, equalizer
Drive slide: compresor, overdrive, reverb, equalizer
Dirty slide: distortion, overdrive, reverb, equalizer
😎👊
In the place of your Klon, I use a bit of an off the wall solution to cut through. I use my Sioux Guitars Flanger with the depth frozen. It acts as a cocked wah type effect that you tune to best cut through
Super cool slide how-to. Love the insight.
So, how about... Telecaster --> Soul Food --> Blues Driver --> Canyon Delay --> RV-6 --> Blues Junior for a "slide" signal chain?
no rest for the wiked! i think you miss us, lol and your guitar.
hope you have a great vacation bro
Pink Floyd and cold play are who got me to really try slide!
Just what I was looking for
John Butler Trio’s stuff has great slide parts....on a 12 acoustic guitar going through a Marshall amp...
that is a nice guitar.. styling is sharp.. headstock is the large Fender type which i love.. and it has binding on the body which i like too
Good tip on muting the back end of the string. Glass slide is my preferred sound choice too, BTW.
One of my favorite slide guitar works is on U2"s Bullet the Blue Sky.
The solo on Red Rider's Lunatic Fringe is pretty awesome too though I think that was a pedal steel guitar.
Anyways, I always liked slide but was never really good at it especially finding the right tone so this is really helpful.
Good slide tips - thanks! I would throw a compressor into that mix as well to help even out the sound and add a bit more sustain.
I use middle finger, brass slide, 12-52's with a wound 3rd, Les Paul, Keeley Caverns reverb and delay, Strymon Sunset set on Texas mode, and a Chet Atkins/Warren Haynes finger picking technique.
Gran bel video come sempre.. Cheers from Italy 👍🍷
And now, slide right back into that beach bed, have a good vacation :)
This has to be the most educational channel around . btw, i took attention to slide hearing the first Rose Tattoo record.
The slide guitar in Bob Seger's Like a Rock is amazing too.
For my slide tone, usually my Echoplex preamp (dimed) into my Arion Tubulator with the gain dimed, about 75% on the tone knob and volume to taste.
Thanks for the tips on delay! Firing up my rig now!
My slide setup is pretty similar Fender Mustang>Keeley Compressor Plus>low gain OCD>high gain Rockett Archer>MXR Carbon Copy Deluxe>Princeton Reverb. I mostly use the amp's reverb unless I'm trynna get weird. And sometimes I use my DD-20 instead of or in addition to the Carbon Copy for the same reason. The transparent drive into a high gain klone is an idea I copped from your stacking pedals video, but since I came up with using it for slide guitar independently of this video, I'm just gonna say I invented it.
That's a good slide tone! I personally like to use a compressor with single coils. I also like using my Les Paul for slide, especially for a higher gain tone - it cuts through the mix very well. Finally, I think a slapback echo fairly loud can really accentuate the pitch movement.
I usually play with different slides, metal or copper or glass slides, in order to have many sounds as possible. But, must of the times the only pedal I turn on it's a special double overdrive made for me by The Mad Hatter that allows me to cut through the mix and set two different levels, for different playings. But tonite, I'll be on stage and I'll pair the Morning Glory and the Klone, just to see if it can be a valid alternative to my usual sound. Congratulations!
Great slide tone! Im a novice at slide, about 6 months in. I use a glass rockslide. Normally play on a strat, tele, ot prs custom 24. I been favoring open E, but have tried drop D and standard. I have a spark boost pedal for my resonator ive been meaning to try on the electrics.
Great sound!
For slide check out Mike Snowden, Hollowbelly and RL Burnside. Or Hound Dog Taylor, Fred McDowell and JB Hutto...for old school! Cool video!
I’ve always thought of the morning glory as an alternative to the klon centaur, but now I see how different they are. Stacked that way sounds amazing
Listener - Death By Shotgun. the slide is great, but the creative instrumentals are what makes it for me. chains, ratchets, and trash cans. incredible musicianship.
So, its nice to see someone else not use a compressor playing slide, my normal set up is a amp set to really growl when the guitar is at 10 (orange, um vox, super reverb turned up) a boost or drive turned down (a LTD by Barber or a '81 inventions DRV) and a verb delay pedal when I wanna be all spacy (a dispatch master is the best for this, not just because it's made by friends, but because its a one stop shop for that sound)
Basically the drive pedal is there if I'm usong an amp that wont get really growly like a bassman or a mig 50... I use a rock slide brass slide and I use a 335 style/semi hollow boddy guitar... I play alot of slide
I never played slide cause I couldn't have a good sound with it, you just led me the way !!
I'm am now a proud owner of the panther cub, pink panther, and the double barrel. I love them so much.
Thanks!
First comment?
Just wanted to say I love to play my slide with my JHS Double Barrel, both sides on, my JHS panther cub delay and my HOF mini reverb... Amazing sound!!
LOL. You should make a pedal that goes from light and "transparent" to "gooey, rich... chunky mid-range" and "thick."
Great episode.
Josh, at 3:23 you mean a Klon KTR, although I know you have a Centaur that’s been in other videos. (Also, I won’t aggravate you while you’re on vacation by asking for the Behringer equivalents for all of the effects in this video like I usually do). Have a great vacation!
Great video! Also anyone else notice the morning glory logo looks like an IUD?
Slide tone in phx az!. Tele straight into a slightly moded epiphone valve jr. The one knob is just past 12 o'clock. If we need a slight bit more "bite" just add a bit of soulfood to taste.😜
Ben from All Them Witches has a great slide tone on their last album and kexp video. Btw thanks for pointing out those slide parts on that U2 album. I have to say although it is the first piece of music I actually owned and I ve heard it probly like 100 times I never really noticed much sliding going on.
Nick’s hand through the end of the food screenshots is easily my favorite part of this video 🤷🏼♂️😂
I’m not much of a slide player, but totally going to do that eBow thing when I get a chance...
There's an excellent performance by guitarist Martin Simpson on the Museum of Making Music channel, the first song of the full concert has him playing slide with an E-bow on acoustic guitar, and it is totally haunting and mesmerizing.
I really like that sound. I’m struggling with slide at the moment. Inspired by the music of Santo and Johnny, I converted a mustang bullet into a lap steel. I have made some nice sounds, but it mostly sounds “experimental”.
I like slide on an acoustic nylon string. I play with a brass thimble from my mother’s sewing kit.
Good video, using the finger instead a guitar pick give a great tone too ! :)
This video just taught me how to play slide.
I bought a slide in 1999 just to learn the RHCP Scar Tissue solo… and I peaked. I need to get back into it.
son of a beach - the polarity....best slide song everrr
btw happy birthday Josh
very Robert Randolph esq tone, sounds great!
Use a Epi LP junior with a nut riser. I lay it down and use a steel slide between my thumb and index finger using the rest to mute on the back end. Enjoy your time away!!! Catch your videos every week, they are the goods.
Nathan Bartlett what is a nut riser? Just something under the strings to raise (at the nut) the action I’m assuming? Or is it presuming?
@@benlogan430 It is a slotted nut that sits over the top of your regular nut to raise the action for slide playing on a guitar. It doesn't require any modifications. You just take it off, if you want to, when you are done. Also called: Grover Perfect Guitar Nut - Height Extender. StewMac sells a version that's a little different but same idea. From $5 - $10.
Today's record time is bought to you by,my fave slide record.
Sonny Landreth's "Grant Street" (live album) check out Congo Square
Elmore James - Comin'Home
Oh yeah !
I love slide! I usually play it on Open G and I use my Epiphone SG with my amp turned all the way up. I get some really great sounds from it that way, but it's too much gain for fretting and stuff, so I just back off the volume on my guitar to play rhythmic stuff and then I just crank it for the solos. No need for reverb when it's that loud! The drumset on the room does that for me!
I play pedal steel guitar and when I kick in some gain, I kind of do the reverse... an earth drive, which has a mid boosty kind of sound, in to a mucho boosto turned way down, which gives it a bit of air that the earth drive is missing. Then it's to a volume pedal, then to a carbon copy bright, then a hardwire reverb.
Lots to think about I've always played acoustic slide more because there's not as much sonic noise that can get in the way but I can see how you use the pedals to cancel out the extra noise thx for the vid
Always find it hard to play slide, cause my comfortable finger is the middle one (at least it’s ok for power chords, but unfit for mixing slide and regular solos), and cause I try to follow the melody in my head, but it’s never easy to do it on standard tuning. Love the ep. and the rig.
Edit: loved the food visualizing. Enjoy your vacation!
It might help to try singing the melody while you play - Rory Gallagher did that a ton, it's fun to do, and it does help your ears and fingers to match up.
I use the Keeley Aria (red dirt into compressor) then a superbolt v2 into a hof (sometimes a really short delay to thicken the sound).
I just like to add a comment, you said humbucker on 3:45 but is a single or p90. I love your videos so much!
I always have a compressor on for sustain... otherwise, pretty similar. Something like a Keeley Super Phat Mod for grit, and whatever is nearby for delay/reverb. But also add harmonic tremolo for warble. The Keeley Vibe o Verb is perfect - harmonic trem only on the reverb trails.
I use a Tele and Fender Concert amp, with a Boss compressor for sustain (with the attack dialled down) . I never use OD or Fuzz for melodic slide (sounds too bluesy) but agree with using the delay/reverb.